If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
HANS KUNGFor many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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